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CID Report: 0147-04-CID259-80210
July 17, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 97
CID Report of investigation regarding alleged abuse of detainee at unknown detention facility in Tikrit, Iraq. Detainee picked up by Iraqi Police on or about April 15, 2004. He was interviewed with the assistance of an interpreter on May 5, 2004. For details of abuse, see Incident.
Investigation concludes that it could “not develop sufficient evidence to prove or disprove the allegations made by” the victim, and that it “did not further diminish the integrity or credibility” of the victim’s allegations.
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INCIDENTS OF ABUSE MENTIONED:
- 2004-04-15, Tikrit, Iraq
- Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq
- CID Report of investigation regarding alleged abuse of detainee at unknown detention facility in Tikrit, Iraq. Detainee picked up by Iraqi Police on or about April 15, 2004. He was interviewed with the assistance of an interpreter on May 5, 2004. The detainee alleged that he “was hit in the head with a pistol several times” before being transferred to U.S. military custody. He received medical attention and medicine from a U.S. medical doctor for his head injuries, and was then transferred to somewhere in Tikrit, Iraq. He said that the first night his clothing “was cut from his body” while he was still “flex cuffed and blind folded.” He alleged that people who were speaking English “were standing on his back” and that he was “then beat with a cable on the shoulders and with a stick in the ribs” and “kicked in the head.” He also alleged that “the English speaking guards would pour the medicine from the capsules on the floor preventing him from taking the medicine provided by the doctor.” He also alleged that he was interrogated and “the translator would kick and punch him in the face and head,” and that “he was beaten on the bottom of his feet with a plastic stick.” He recalled seeing “a translator in a U.S. uniform and an English-speaking male in blue jeans through the blindfold during his beatings.” He alleged being “kept in a small box, which forced him to stay on his knees,” and stated that “the guards would keep him awake all night.” He further asserted that he was “bound with flex cuffs the entire time until four days prior to being brought to [Baghdad Central Confinement Facility] BCCF.” A U.S. medical doctor who treated the victim in Tikrit reported that he had “friction burns on his wrists from rubbing against the flex cuffs, and his hands were swollen as a result.” The medic also stated that he was concerned that the staples in the victim’s head “may become impacted [due] to the amount of hair that was in and under the staples.” As a result, the medic cut the victim’s hair after four to five days “in order to find all the staples to remove them,” and ultimately removed approximately 18 staples from his head. The medic stated that the victim stayed in the Tikrit compound for about a week before being transferred to Baghdad. A medical examination of the detainee on May 5, 2004 found traces of injuries that were “approximately 15 days old and consistent with blunt trauma,” including “injury to the rib area” that was “consistent with blunt trauma from a long tubular object” and “dried blood in the left ear” consistent with “some type of head trauma.” U.S. officials who interacted with the detainee at Abu Ghraib stated that the victim “caused injury to himself by banging his head against a wall and trying to break his hand cuffs,” and that a medical inspection revealed that the victim’s head “had several lacerations on top and contained approximately 30-35 staples to hold the lacerations together.” The detainee was allegedly “wanted by Coalition forces for the murder of a U.S. citizen, 2 U.S. servicemembers, an Iraqi National, and wounding two USSF personnel.” Investigation concludes that it could “not develop sufficient evidence to prove or disprove the allegations made by” the victim, and that it “did not further diminish the integrity or credibility” of the victim’s allegations.